Don't Touch the White Woman!
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Don't Touch the White Woman! | |
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Directed by | Marco Ferreri |
Produced by | Jean-Pierre Rassam Jean Yanne Alain Sarde François Rochas |
Written by | Marco Ferreri Rafael Azcona |
Starring | Marcello Mastroianni Catherine Deneuve Darry Cowl Alain Cuny Ugo Tognazzi Michel Piccoli Philippe Noiret Paolo Villaggio Franca Bettoia Monique Chaumette Francine Custer |
Music by | Philippe Sarde |
Cinematography | Étienne Becker |
Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
Distributed by | Image Entertainment |
Release date | 23 January 1974 |
Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | France Italy |
Language | French |
Box office | $1,402,866[1] |
Don't Touch the White Woman! is a 1974 French-Italian farce, an absurdist Western set in Paris, directed by Marco Ferreri.[2]
Don't Touch the White Woman! | |
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Directed by | Marco Ferreri |
Produced by | Jean-Pierre Rassam Jean Yanne Alain Sarde François Rochas |
Written by | Marco Ferreri Rafael Azcona |
Starring | Marcello Mastroianni Catherine Deneuve Darry Cowl Alain Cuny Ugo Tognazzi Michel Piccoli Philippe Noiret Paolo Villaggio Franca Bettoia Monique Chaumette Francine Custer |
Music by | Philippe Sarde |
Cinematography | Étienne Becker |
Edited by | Ruggero Mastroianni |
Distributed by | Image Entertainment |
Release date | 23 January 1974 |
Running time | 110 minutes |
Country | France Italy |
Language | French |
Box office | $1,402,866[1] |
Plot
A fictionalized version of Custer's Last Stand set at a real Paris, France building site. Marcello Mastroianni stars as General George Armstrong Custer. Buffalo Bill Cody (Michel Piccoli) portrays a charlatan media impresario. Ugo Tognazzi gives a fictional portrayal of Mitch Bouyer one of Custer's Native American scouts, who runs a business selling Native artifacts made in sweatshops by white women. Alain Cuny plays Sitting Bull who must defend his people when their apartment building homes are destroyed by the Union Cavalry. The film climaxes with the Battle of the Little Bighorn held in a large construction excavation where Les Halles market once was.
Cast
Catherine Deneuve - Marie-Hélène de Boismonfrais
Marcello Mastroianni - George A. Custer
Michel Piccoli - Buffalo Bill
Philippe Noiret - Gen. Terry
Ugo Tognazzi - Mitch
Alain Cuny - Sitting Bull
Serge Reggiani - The Mad Indian
Darry Cowl - Major Archibald
Monique Chaumette - Sister Lucie
Daniele Dublino - Daughter
Henri Piccoli - Sitting Bull's Father
Franca Bettoia - Rayon de Lune (as Franca Bettoja)
Paolo Villaggio - The CIA agent
Franco Fabrizi - Tom (as Franco Fabrizzi)
Laurente Vedres - (as Vedres et Boutang)
See also
Mr. Freedom
Blazing Saddles
Revisionist Western
Cultural depictions of George Armstrong Custer